Six on Saturday. 20.11.21.

We have had a beautiful , prolonged fall here with just any frost and the wonderful colour hang on for weeks . Koelreuteria paniculata‘Coral Sun ’ in the backcloth to the right is living up to its name , but the liquidamber has barely started its annual bonfire of colours .

So I will be seasonal and start my six with some bright berries . The burnished is of course of study , Callicarpa bodinieriwith its profusion of long lasting , shiny amethyst- coloured Chuck Berry .

Callicarpa is a bit ho-hum when it is not bearing its stupefying berries , but my next berry bush , Clerodendron trichotomumvar . Fargesiihas fragrant starry blossom in summer . This shrub come from China and I am not sure if I care the potent scent of the flowers , but I bed its reasonably turquoise gamy berries which are revealed when the scarlet calyces split open . Actually , to be academic , I think we should call these berries stone fruit . But whatever they are visit , they are very eye - catching .

I have already given myEuonymus hamiltonianus‘Miss Pinkie ’ an ventilation on this blog but she is still see very passably in pinkish , peculiarly now the leave have fall off . She looks endearing against the silvery depart ofCistus creticuswhich started its biography here as a cutting ; an illegal immigrant from Crete . As ‘ Miss Pinkie ’ was born from a found Chuck Berry , I should call this recession of the garden ‘ Crook ’s Corner ’ .

As I have several other November beauty to share today I shall bend the rules a turn and put all three berries into number one . Frost is threatened for next week so perhaps we should keep some hangers on from summertime . Salvias are still expire substantial all round the garden and there are mint of roses . Farrer name roses that hang on into wintertime ‘ wizened moth ‘ but nobody could call the wonderful China rose that are barely out of blooming ‘ withered moths ’ . I cogitate flight of butterfly stroke would be more appropriate . I have two China roses , both of them with beautiful single flowers . It is difficult to prefer a front-runner , but the superb ‘ Bengal Beauty ’ has pile of red flowers which right now look adorable in front of the fiery fall colours ofCotinus coggyria . Unfortunately , today is a boring day so that it does n’t shine as it did yesterday .

For some reason that I do n’t understand , blush wine that I always knew asRosa chinensisnow seem to be known asRosa x odorataso I must have missed something . The next one is call ‘ Mutabilis’which is a serious name as the vividness of the flowers drift from honey - chickenhearted to apricot to pink .

I grow several alstroemerias and most of them are long gone . But my dearie seems to pump out prime until the first frost . It is calledAlstroemeria ‘ Indian Summer ’ ; it has dark foliage and flower which are lovely sundown color . This makes an excellent cut flower , so next year I shall get some more , a bed of them would be endearing .

November is a bit niggardly when it come to flowering shrubs , but you may always count on the yellow racemes ofMahonia x media‘Charity ’ . I screw the shrub for its architectural , shiny foliation and abundance of fragrant flowers which lighten up up the gloomiest daylight . It needs to have a haircut in the spring after blossom to keep it compact , otherwise it can get a bit leggy .

For my last two plants I am going into the glasshouse . People are always surprised to see snowdrops in the autumn , but there are several which flush in October and December and they are always welcome . My October one , Galanthus reginae - olgaehas been and gone and my November - bloomingGalanthus‘Barnes ’ was looking lovely a few day ago with nice plump flowers but it has been eat by some horrible gastropod . But in the nursery I have a potty of daintyGalanthus peshmenii looking endearing . This wood anemone comes from the Aegean and our winters are in all likelihood too wet for it to survive outside .

Also still going strong in the greenhouse , I have the climbingMimulus aurantiacus I think this plant do from California , it blooms for calendar month on end and I have it off its small monkey faces . It has sticky leave and used to be calledMimulus glutinosus . seek to keep up with these name changes is a full time job .

So there we have mySix on Saturdayon this gloomy November mean solar day . I screw there are probably nine in fact , but I never was any good at look . Do go over to thePropagatorwho hosts Six on Saturday and you will find plenty of penetrative nurseryman who have plenty to show us even though our gardens are weave down for the winter .

29 Responses toSix on Saturday. 20.11.21.

I love the berries . Your photo of the Clerodendrum transport me to my garden usher ( for the westerly US ) to see if it was a fit for my climate and , surprisingly , it is , although its matured size is probably bigger than my garden will support . You ’re one of several gardener showing Mahonia ‘ Charity ’ in heyday – my flora seems to run on an entirely different schedule as I see no signboard of flowers on the horizon as yet .

These are beautiful plant , beautiful prime , and beautiful photograph . I ’m glad you ’re have an extended warm season .

efflorescence in november are emphatically amazing , but I must intromit that I prefer fruit and berries and the Clerodendron is nothing short of astonishing . Lisbeth

Six on Saturday. 20.11.21.